Stovepipe-holder.



' Witnesses J. W. SLIEMERS.

STOVEPIPE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED on. 28. 1916- Patnted Feb. 20, 1917.

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' Attorneys JOHN W. SLIEMERS, OF ST. JOSEPH, TENNESSEE.

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- Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Feb. 20, 191?.

Application filed October 28, 1916, Scria1No.128,215.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN W. SLIEMERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Joseph, in the county of Lawrence and State of Tennessee, hav invented a new and useful Stovepipe-Holder, of which the following is a specification.

The presentinvention appertains to stove pipe holders, and aims to provide novel and improved means for holding a stove pipe assembled with the chimney, to prevent the stove pipe accidentally slipping out of the opening in the chimney.

It is the object of the invention to provide a device of the character indicated which is extremely simple and inexpensive in construction, which enables a stove pipe to be readily applied to and removed from the chimney, and which is thoroughly practical and efiicient in use.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, can be made with in the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein Figure 1 is an elevation of the device as in use.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view thereof illustrating the clamping cam.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view illustrating a modified form.

Fig; 1 is an'enlarged detail view illustrating one of the clamping cams of the modified form.

Fig. 5 is a fragmental perspective view of another modification.

The device illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 is constructed chiefly from a bar or strip of resilient yet relatively stifl material. This bar is doubled and bent to provide a straight portion 1 having an ear 2 extending at right angles therefrom at one end and constituting one terminal of the bar, and the portion 1 has a portion 3 extending at right angles from its other end in the same direction as the ear 2. Extending from the portion 3 is a portion 4 bent back upon the portion 3, said portions 3 and 4: providing a doubled portion, and a resilient tongue 5 extends from the portion & along theportion l to a point adjacent to the ear 2 The free end of the tongue 5 is. provided with a portion'G extending at an angle therefrom, in a direc-v tion opposite to the direction in which the ear 2 extends, and the'free end of the portion 6 constitutes the other terminal of the bar and has the curved end 7.

The stove pipe holder formed by the bar is adapted to be inserted in the stove pipe opening 8 of a chimney, and the body portion 1 of the bar is preferably located at the top of the opening 8, although it can be located at any other suitable position, with the ear 2 and doubled portion 3-4L- overlapping the outer and inner surfaces of the Wall 9' of the chimney to hold the device in place. The stove pipe 10 when inserted into the opening 8 passes between the body portion 1 and tongue 5, as seen in Fig. 1, and moves past the curved end 7 of the portion 6.

In order to clamp the stove p1pe 10 in place, a cam 11 is pivoted, as at 12, to the outer face of the ear 2 and is provided with a radial arm 13 having a finger piece 14., whereby the cam can be turned after the stove pipe is inserted, for holding the pipe in place. Thus, when the cam is turned it will press the respective portion of the pipe against the tongue 5, to clamp said portion of the pipe between the cam 11 and tongue 5, and the portion 6 having its end 7 bearing against the diametrically opposite portion of the pipe, will prevent the pipe being dented or pressed inwardly excessively.

In the modified form illustrated in Figs. 3

V and 4 there is provided a thimble 1 which fits within the opening 8 in the chimney", and the outer end of the thimble 1 is provided at diametrically opposite points with outturned ears 2 to rest against the outer sur face of the chimney wall 9, and the cams 11, there being two of them, are pivoted to the ears 2 to swing inwardly against opposite portions of the pipe 10. The thimble 1 is provided at diametrically opposite portions with tongues 5 struck inwardly therefrom and projecting toward the outer end of the thimble, said tongues being arranged at a small obtuse angle with the walls of the thimble and being resilient, in order that when the, pipe 10 is inserted into the thimble, the end of the pipe will be received wedgedly between the wall of the thimble and the resilient tongues 5. The cams 11 can then be turned for clamping the opposite portions of the pipe 10, the tongues 5 serving to limit or prevent the indenting of the pipe by the cams.

The modification illustrated in Fig. 5 generally resembles the construction illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, and embodies a bar 1 adapted to extend through the chimney opening and having an angularly extending ear 2 at its outer end to overlap the outer surface of the chimney, and an angularly' extending portion 3 at its inner end to overlap the inner surface of the chimney, whereby to hold the bar in place. Riveted or otherwise secured to the bar is a resilient tongue 5 projecting to the outer end of the bar for receiving the stove pipe, and a pair of cams 11 is pivoted, as at 12, to the ear 2 and has arms 13 provided with apertured lugs 1 through which the ends of a wire 15 or other flexible elements are engaged. Thus, after the stove pipe is applied to the holder, and the cams 11 swung, the wire 15 can be passed under the pipe and engaged with the lugs 14, to hold the cams in clamping position, and to also support the pipe which is slung in the wire or flexible element.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is A stove pipe holder adapted to fit in a chimney opening and to fit the exterior of a stove pipe, said holder having an angularly extending portion at its outer end and a tongue extending at an angle therefrom outwardly to project'within the stove pipe, and a cam pivoted to said portion to bear against the exterior of the pipe, said tongue limiting the indenting of the pipe by said cam.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixed by signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN W. SLIEMERS.

Witnesses:

T. A. DUGGER, FRANK BERGAB.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, I). C. 

